“I have never seen, upon the face of the earth, anyone more proficient in the craft of the Sunan or more exact in preserving the authentic wordings than he; it is as though the Sunan and every hadith were constantly set before his very eyes.”

Sahih Ibn Hibban

Comparable to it is the Sahih of Ibn Hibban—the pupil of Ibn Khuzaymah—himself a trustworthy, firmly grounded, and distinguished imam.